Celebrities Who Are Too Cool For Social Media: Keira Knightley and More | SN42Y34 | 2024-04-01 23:08:01
Though several stars love sharing their lives on social media, some celebrities have chosen to avoid the apps for their own private causes.
Keira Knightley doesn't have any social media accounts anymore, because she needs to maintain her personal life to herself.
"I had an account for about 5 seconds. I watched it accumulate, like, 100 followers in three seconds and I received so freaked out that I turned it off right away," she advised The Irish Times in a September 2019 interview, including that she doesn't have "very much" that she needs to share. "I have a toddler and one other one on the best way, and I would like their privacy to be protected and sacred till they're sufficiently old to choose what they need to do with their lives."
Emily Blunt has chosen to remain off social media due to her career as an actress – and keep who she is outdoors of the spotlight.
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"I additionally feel like my job is to influence people who I'm any person else so if I reveal an excessive amount of, then I'm doing my job a disservice, in a approach," she explained to Vulture in December 2015, noting that she also needs to remain offline to have a "stability" between her regular life and appearing. "I really am in love with this job, however I'm also in love with my life outdoors of it. One among them very much feeds the opposite."
Maintain scrolling to see more stars who choose to remain off social media:
Keira Knightley
Knightley admitted that she had an account "for about 5 seconds" and received "so freaked out" that she deleted it instantly. She now chooses to maintain her life outdoors of social media to protect her youngsters.
"Also I am rubbish at taking footage, so my Instagram feed or whatever can be a humiliation," she joked to The Irish Occasions in a September 2019 interview.
Rachel McAdams
"I take heed to the news on the radio. I don't have tv and I am actually dangerous at e-mail," she advised Individuals in a 2009 interview. "It was only lately that I heard about Twitter for the first time, and it's all I've heard about since. I'm actually ignorant."
Sandra Bullock
In March 2022, Bullock joked that she wasn't on social media because of her film The Internet, which follows a computer programmer who stumbles upon authorities secrets and techniques and finds herself on the run from an unknown enemy. "I discovered so much," she quipped throughout an look on The Jess Cagle Present at the time. "We met real hackers and I keep in mind individuals going, 'Does that exist? Do you assume we might truly order a pizza from your pc?' And I was like, 'Sure.'"
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Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen
"We don't dive into that world [of social media]; we don't have Instagram or Facebook," Ashley shared in a March 2017 interview with Net-a-Porter's The Edit in 2017. "We've stayed quite sheltered in that sense."
Scarlett Johansson
"My ego is just too fragile. My brain is just too fragile. I'm like a delicate flower," Johansson shared on an April 2023 episode of "The Skinny Confidential Him & Her" podcast, adding that she has "sufficient nervousness" in her life without social media. "I had Instagram once for 3 days and once I started realizing that I'd spent 20 minutes taking a look at any person's Instagram web page who labored for a pal of mine. … I felt so dangerous, like I was missing out on this random individual's life. I used to be like, I can't do this."
Emily Blunt
"I'm like a dinosaur with [social media], No. 1. Nevertheless it's additionally not likely an natural type of match for me," she informed Vulture in a December 2015 interview. "I can barely keep in mind to textual content individuals again!"
Emma Stone
"I feel it wouldn't be a constructive thing for me," Stone stated in an August 2018 interview with Elle. "If individuals can deal with that kind of output and enter in the social media sphere, power to them."
Kristen Stewart
"I'm not totally engaged socially. However I really feel like I'm not hiding," Stewart advised reporters through the Venice Movie Pageant in 2019, based on The Hollywood Reporter. "I don't have social media but there's an interaction that I acknowledge and at occasions I covet."
Kate Winslet
"[My husband Ned Rocknroll and I] aren't strict, however you need to have guidelines I feel and we definitely have those," Winslet advised Newsbeat in an October 2015 interview. "We don't have any social media, nothing like that. We're not an enormous devices-up family."
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George and Amal Clooney
"Simply because, I wish to have a drink at night time," George stated in a 2014 interview with Variety. "I might easily say one thing stupid, and I also don't assume it is advisable to be that out there. I don't see Matt Damon or Brad Pitt or myself eager to get our thoughts out in a 140-character-thing at three in the morning."
George's spouse, Amal, can also be not on any social media platform.
Mila Kunis
"[Social media] took an unsightly turn and became all about who may be the loudest, who may be the angriest and probably the most adverse. Then it's just a fun recreation to play," Kunis shared in a July 2018 interview with Cosmopolitan whereas explaining why she's not on social media.
Daniel Radcliffe
"I might like to say there's some type of intellectual, well-thought-out purpose for [not joining social media] as a result of I thought-about getting a Twitter and I 100 % know that if I did, you all can be waking up to stories of like, 'Dan Radcliffe gets into battle with random individual on Twitter,'" he stated on an episode of First We Feasts' Hot Ones in December 2020. He added that regardless of not subscribing to any platform, he has used them to "lookup comments about [himself] on the internet]."
Radcliffe noted that his previous conduct was an "insane" factor to do and that Twitter feels "like an extension of that."
"Until I'm going to go simply learn all good things about myself, which also looks like one other sort of unhealthy factor to do," he explained. "Aside from that, I don't truthfully assume I'm mentally robust enough, however right now I feel I'm all right with that."
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Tina Fey
"There's simply not sufficient hours within the day for it really," Fey informed Entertainment Tonight in a December 2015 interview alongside pal Amy Poehler. "We both work so much. And if we now have time that we're not working, we need to be with our youngsters. I'm not going to be curating what my meal appeared like for Instagram or something.
Fey also joked that she's simply ready to hitch social media until she will "show [her] nipples."
"If I can't show my nipples, I don't want any part of it," she shared at the time.
Cate Blanchett
"I can't for the lifetime of me work out why adults are collaborating in that s–t," Blanchett stated in an October 2015 interview with Yahoo! Life. "The thing is, even on the information individuals confer with a tweet, so that you're nonetheless hearing about it. It's sufficient of my day going via emails. … I in all probability do miss out on a variety of stuff – I in all probability go to much less events than I would really like."
Chris Pine
"I've little interest in [social media]," Pine stated in a January 2014 interview with USA Today. "With Facebook and Twitter everybody needs to publicize their innermost truths. In 2014, we're seeing the true dissolution of private and non-private. Privacy isn't guaranteed, is just not as revered, cherished or desired as it as soon as was."
Saoirse Ronan
In a February 2018 interview with The Wrap, Ronan admitted she had Twitter for slightly bit however deleted it because it was "an excessive amount of work" and "too worrying."
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"I've developed a sort of distant relationship with my telephone and know-how during the last couple of years," she defined to the outlet. "I get why musicians do it, and journalists or individuals in the public eye however appearing is a special factor 'trigger you're not yourself whenever you're working. I'm not me in something that anyone sees me in. So for me then to get on Twitter and go, 'Oh, I've had a horrible day' or 'God, I've received such a headache,' I simply don't assume individuals have to see that."
Ronan added that self-promotion has additionally made her feel "really uncomfortable."
Alicia Vikander
Vikander deleted Instagram after only one month after realizing she couldn't find any "pleasure" in it.
"I noticed early on that social media was not good for me. I personally didn't discover the enjoyment in it," she explained to Harper's Bazaar in a March 2019 interview, adding that she finds self-confidence outdoors of on-line "likes."
Colin Firth
"My impulse is not to broadcast myself once I'm off the clock. I feel once I go residence, I don't need to ship more pictures out there," he stated in a CineSeries interview in March 2018.
Brad Pitt
"By no means gonna happen," Pitt shared with reporters on the 2019 premiere of As soon as Upon a Time in Hollywood. "Properly, I never say by no means. Life's pretty good without it. I don't see the purpose."
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Olivia Colman
"I refuse to be [on social media] I don't need to know what individuals think of me who don't know me and have never met me. Until it's nice," she advised ABC RN's The Screen Show in a March 2024 interview. "However I feel, unfortunately, you by no means keep in mind the great bits. I do know myself; I'm not thick-skinned sufficient. If I had been part of social media, I feel I might have retired from this job years in the past."
Rachel Weisz and Daniel Craig
"I'm not very technologically savvy," Weisz shared with PORTER in an April 2023 interview, including that she chooses to keep her personal life quiet. "I suppose, for me, the phrases 'personal life' mean simply that: that you've a personal life, which is the real-life stuff. And then there's the fantasy stuff."
Weisz's husband, Craig, additionally doesn't have an internet presence.
"In all probability one of many reasons I keep off social media is I might say issues that I might remorse and I don't need to do this," Craig stated in a December 2022 interview with Sky News.
Elizabeth Olsen
Olsen received off social media in the summertime of 2020 after customers bullied her for not posting a tribute to Chadwick Boseman after his dying.
"It's not even like I used to be really listening to comments or anything. I just felt weird the way it organized my brain," she stated in an interview with Glamour UK in April 2021. "Like, if something occurred on the earth, I was like, 'Oh, do I've to submit about this?'"
Eddie Murphy
"I don't have to be on social media interacting with the fans, tweeting that I simply ate strawberries," Murphy joked to The Hollywood Reporter in August 2016. "Nothing has me go, 'Oh, yeah, get me on, too, I need to be on there with y'all! I just had strawberries too! I'm going to the shop now! Take a look at this picture of this child!'"
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